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The one-club player’s career has been filled with accolades including six All Australian selections and four club best and fairest awards over his 16-year career, but a premiership medallion eluded him.

“We’ll celebrate the journey and not the success because he never got the ultimate success, but him standing up for other retired players at the commission table, the scandals he was involved in and the way he handled them, the way he handled the death of his sister and turn it into this wonderful campaign” Wilson said.

Very few players are able to gain the unwavering respect and admiration of the footy community, but Nick Riewoldt is an exception to the rule.

“He’s just admired. Obviously that courage, will to win, the desire the leadership,” Matthew Lloyd said.

“He’s a man you would have loved to have played with”

Over Riewoldt’s career the rules and style of the game has significantly shifted, but the 34-year-old has managed to adapt his game to become one of the most valuable and eye-catching players to have ever played AFL.

“He dominated different eras. He dominated when footy wasn’t as hard running and free flow as it is today, dominated when you had to stand under it, and to still be doing it at 34, 35 years of age, there have been few like him,” Garry Lyon said.

The debate remains however, where does the man affectionately known as ‘Roo’ stand amongst the best forwards of all-time.

“Is he the best forward since your era?” Hutchison asked.

“Carey for me, no one touches Wayne Carey from where I sit, but he’s in the conversation as the next best,” Lyon responded.

Riewoldt is set to play four more games before the curtains finally close on his career, and there is no doubt the St. Kilda fans will make it the most enjoyable month of football in Riewoldt’s career.